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Offline HammerD

Re: FS: Brand New (NOS) QuickPak Amiga 4000 Towers
« on: September 22, 2008, 11:04:50 PM »
@ Itstanfo

Do you have proof or confirmation Quikpak shipped "new" A4000T's in a "much better case" as you are saying?

I have never seen any evidence to this fact.  I know they did demo a luggable A4000 type machine and also an A5000 tower machine which was an A4000T and Bridgeboard combo, but as far as I know, none of these units ever shipped.  Only the original Quikpak A4000T shipped with a A3640 rev 3.2 and two different 060 cards, the original A4060T version, designed by Jeff Boyer of GVP fame, and a A4060 Desktop version, again by Jeff Boyer.  (I know as I have owned both and currently own the Desktop 060 version).

Just so everyone knows, you have always been able to get NOS A4000T's from Software Hut for about $1000 USD.  You just have to e-mail them and ask.  I bought one last year.

Photos here: http://www.hd-zone.com/amiga/A4000T.html


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Offline HammerD

Re: Quickpak who?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2008, 06:56:40 PM »
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early stocks used the same case as the ESCOM A4000T but there was a late production version that used a much better (larger with bigger power supply) case aimed at the video market. QuikPak is best remembered for their A4060 accelerator card, which is considered the best / fastest by some for its use of EDO RAM. There were plans for an onboard SCSI update for the card but I don't think it was ever released (you sent your card back for a hardware / software update).


Hi, just asking again, do you have any evidence that a "late production version" actually shipped using a much better case? I have never heard of this...

What I do know for a fact is:

Quikpak produced the A4000T motherboard and assembled them into the A4000T case approved by Amiga Technologies and sold into the North American market.  They sold complete A4000T systems to Amiga stores like Software Hut, with either a A3640 rev 3.2 card or with two different 060 cards.  The first 060 card was a large card commonly known as the Quikpak 4060T 68060 board with EDO ram slots and optional scsi.  The second was a smaller "desktop" version of the same board, named A4000-060 XP Rev. 2.

I have heard RUMOURS, but have no confirmation, that some systems shipped with Phase 5 060 cards.  Perhaps that was only in europe, or perhaps it is a rumour only.

Quikpak also DEMOED the A4060L and A5050 computers at a Toronto Amiga show.  I saw both with my own eyes, but I have no confirmation either of those machines actually shipped to end users.

The 4060L seemed to be an entirely new board but again, I don't really remember getting a peek at the board itself, but from the size of the square-ish case, I don't think it could have been an A4000T motherboard, nor an A1200 board.

The 5050L was, if I recall, a slightly different case with an A4000T motherboard and a siamese/bridgeboard inside, too.  Nothing really special there.  Perhaps that is the case you mean?

 

 

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